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- Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status
- Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status
- Copyright page
- Contents
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction: Witness to the Persecution? Expertise, Testimony, and Consistency in Asylum Adjudication
- Part I Sociocultural Inconsistency and the Contours of Expertise
- Part II Practices and Technologies for Medico-Psycho Expertise
- 6 Expert as Aid and Impediment: Navigating Barriers to Effective Asylum Representation
- 7 Documenting TortureSequelae: The Weill Cornell Model for Forensic Evaluation, Capacity Building, and Medical Education
- 8 Incredible Until Proven Credible: Mental Health Expert Testimony and the Systemic and Cultural Challenges Facing Asylum Applicants
- 9 Importing Forensic Biomedicine into Asylum Adjudication: Genetic Ancestry and Isotope Testing in the United Kingdom
- 10 “Health Tourism” or “Atrocious Barbarism”? Contextualizing Migrant Agency, Expertise, and Medical Humanitarian Practice
- Afterword
- Index
10 - “Health Tourism” or “Atrocious Barbarism”? Contextualizing Migrant Agency, Expertise, and Medical Humanitarian Practice
from Part II - Practices and Technologies for Medico-Psycho Expertise
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2014
- Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status
- Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status
- Copyright page
- Contents
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction: Witness to the Persecution? Expertise, Testimony, and Consistency in Asylum Adjudication
- Part I Sociocultural Inconsistency and the Contours of Expertise
- Part II Practices and Technologies for Medico-Psycho Expertise
- 6 Expert as Aid and Impediment: Navigating Barriers to Effective Asylum Representation
- 7 Documenting TortureSequelae: The Weill Cornell Model for Forensic Evaluation, Capacity Building, and Medical Education
- 8 Incredible Until Proven Credible: Mental Health Expert Testimony and the Systemic and Cultural Challenges Facing Asylum Applicants
- 9 Importing Forensic Biomedicine into Asylum Adjudication: Genetic Ancestry and Isotope Testing in the United Kingdom
- 10 “Health Tourism” or “Atrocious Barbarism”? Contextualizing Migrant Agency, Expertise, and Medical Humanitarian Practice
- Afterword
- Index
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- Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum StatusThe Role of Witness, Expertise, and Testimony, pp. 221 - 244Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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